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Russell on Induction

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Philosophy

 

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August 11, 2014

 

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Russell states on page 61 that doubting the laws of motion will remain in operation until the following day is an interesting doubt because there are no known forces that can act on the Earth that will cause the law to cease functioning. He states that if a large object were to come and knock the Earth out of rotation then the sun would no longer rise the next morning, but the laws of motion would remain unaffected from this event...
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That is what makes this doubt so interesting. As far as human knowledge is concerned there is no known event that could cause an exception to the laws of motion, thus changing the way in which the law functioned. Russell then asks the question "Have we any reason, assuming that they have always held in the past, to suppose that they will not hold in the future?" What he means is that there have never been any events prior to now that have changed these general laws, what reason would we have to doubt that they will not perform the same tomorrow and the days following that...
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